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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".'John Cole MacdiarmidSketches of NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is WLC copying some matter for me out of Dr Dick's wor...WL Cole DickChristian philosopherPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devotion too, I think very spiritual, for a small work. ...Elizabeth Marshall The Royal MandatePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. "Looking into Jesus" is the titl...Elizabeth Marshall Isaac AmbroseLooking into JesusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [underlined] you wish me to read my dear Susan please to ...Elizabeth Marshall Hannah MorePractical pietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [underlined] you wish me to read my dear Susan please to ...Elizabeth Marshall BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'James Montgomery George Gordon, Lord ByronDoge of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and liturgy" being her principal vade mecum [sic] - this l...Elizabeth Kemble unknownLectures on the Bible and liturgyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Albans arrived at Scarborough this day, and in the afternoon paid me a visit, accompanied by Lord Amelius, and the Ladies Beauclerk.... newspaper articlePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'Thomas Cape unknown[report on trial]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they would soon discover, by reasoning the most correct & ...Anna Doyle Wheeler Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'HolbachLe Systeme de la naturePrint: Book
1800-1849St John's Antigua, July 19 1827 Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yesterday..... I have sometimes thought perhaps I might d...John Page [n/a][newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828 My Dear Fanny I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of your old letters in many of which you accuse me of n...John Page [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829 My Dear Fanny .... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see by the newspapers that there has been some serious ...John Page [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of ButtermereLydia Haskoll [n/a]White Hall Evening PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849 Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper: This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and Catherine Williams of Scorrier House in the year of o...William Williams anonPoetical description of song birdsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818: "Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she had a little brother now and she prayed for him. I ...Lydia Haskoll anonHistory of Little Goody Two-shoesPrint: Book
1800-1849The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks in the margins and within the text at regular inter...Olive Heath anonPreliminary lessons on the history of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton -- and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boo...Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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